England SQL Server Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the SQL Server Developer role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SQL Server Developer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	239	193
Rank change on same period last year	-46
Matching contract IT job ads	418	787
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.557 %	0.785 %
As % of the category below	0.667 %	0.918 %
Daily rates quoted	116	182
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£346
Average daily rate	£363	£373
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£312
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.54	£30.13
Average hourly rate	£31.64	£32.26
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.74	£34.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.65	£35.94
% change on same period last year	-14.71 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	62639	85738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.49 %	85.53 %
Daily rates quoted	21406	26624
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£391
Average daily rate	£406	£416
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	5411	7254
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.25
Average hourly rate	£24.18	£25.80
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.78	£27.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
SQL Server Developer UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SQL Server Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the England region.

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the England region.

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-28	209	£395	+1.43 %
South East	-36	46	£289	-9.35 %
North West	-10	44	£293	-2.33 %
Yorkshire	+15	32	£263	-
West Midlands	+7	31	£278	-20.59 %
South West	+19	16	£310	-4.12 %
East of England	-20	15	£330	+23.75 %
Midlands	+15	11	-	-
East Midlands	-4	8	£325	+116.66 %
North East	+4	4	-	-
South Coast	+4	1	-	-

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SQL Server Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with SQL Server Developer in their job title.

1 919 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 477 (51.90 %) .NET 3 476 (51.80 %) SQL Server 2005 4 384 (41.78 %) C# 5 368 (40.04 %) SQL 6 296 (32.21 %) ASP.NET 7 210 (22.85 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 206 (22.42 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 198 (21.55 %) Transact-SQL 10 195 (21.22 %) SQL Server 2000 11 180 (19.59 %) Finance 12 133 (14.47 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 123 (13.38 %) VB.NET 14 120 (13.06 %) Datawarehouse 15 107 (11.64 %) Banking

16 94 (10.23 %) XML 17 92 (10.01 %) DTS 18 88 (9.576 %) VB 19 87 (9.467 %) Microsoft 20 84 (9.140 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 21 69 (7.508 %) OLAP 22 67 (7.291 %) ETL 23 66 (7.182 %) Front Office 24 65 (7.073 %) Investment Banking 25 62 (6.746 %) Migration 26 54 (5.876 %) VB6 27 53 (5.767 %) HTML 28 52 (5.658 %) ASP 29 51 (5.550 %) JavaScript 29 51 (5.550 %) Business Intelligence

SQL Server Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited SQL Server Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with SQL Server Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 477 (51.90 %) .NET 2 296 (32.21 %) ASP.NET 3 94 (10.23 %) XML 4 53 (5.767 %) HTML 5 52 (5.658 %) ASP 6 49 (5.332 %) .NET Framework 7 46 (5.005 %) WebServices 8 32 (3.482 %) CSS 9 30 (3.264 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 28 (3.047 %) XSLT 11 27 (2.938 %) AJAX 12 22 (2.394 %) WinForms 13 21 (2.285 %) MDX 14 19 (2.067 %) XSL 15 17 (1.850 %) COM+ 16 15 (1.632 %) ADO.NET 17 6 (0.653 %) WCF 18 5 (0.544 %) NHibernate 18 5 (0.544 %) XHTML 19 4 (0.435 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 28 (3.047 %) SharePoint 2 14 (1.523 %) IIS 3 10 (1.088 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 8 (0.871 %) CMS 5 6 (0.653 %) ColdFusion 6 3 (0.326 %) EPiServer 6 3 (0.326 %) SAS 6 3 (0.326 %) BizTalk Server 6 3 (0.326 %) MTS 7 2 (0.218 %) Apache 8 1 (0.109 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 1 (0.109 %) Community Server 8 1 (0.109 %) Content Management Server 8 1 (0.109 %) MQSeries 8 1 (0.109 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 40 (4.353 %) MS Excel 2 6 (0.653 %) Photoshop 3 4 (0.435 %) MS Office 4 3 (0.326 %) Spreadsheet 5 2 (0.218 %) MS Visio 5 2 (0.218 %) MATLAB 5 2 (0.218 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 5 (0.544 %) Microsoft CRM 2 3 (0.326 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 2 (0.218 %) Navision 3 2 (0.218 %) Cognos Planning 3 2 (0.218 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (0.109 %) SAP ERP 4 1 (0.109 %) InvestOne
Communications & Networking 1 8 (0.871 %) Internet 2 6 (0.653 %) Intranet 3 3 (0.326 %) SSL 4 2 (0.218 %) SAN 4 2 (0.218 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (0.218 %) X.500 5 1 (0.109 %) CTI 5 1 (0.109 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 919 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 476 (51.80 %) SQL Server 2005 3 210 (22.85 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 206 (22.42 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 195 (21.22 %) SQL Server 2000 6 133 (14.47 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 120 (13.06 %) Datawarehouse 8 92 (10.01 %) DTS 9 84 (9.140 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 10 69 (7.508 %) OLAP 11 67 (7.291 %) ETL 12 49 (5.332 %) Crystal Reports 13 17 (1.850 %) BusinessObjects 14 11 (1.197 %) Data Mining 15 10 (1.088 %) SQL Server 2008 16 9 (0.979 %) MS Access 17 7 (0.762 %) Data Cleansing 18 6 (0.653 %) Star Schema 19 4 (0.435 %) Oracle 10g 19 4 (0.435 %) Cognos Powerplay
Development Applications 1 49 (5.332 %) Visual Studio 2 22 (2.394 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 22 (2.394 %) NUnit 3 12 (1.306 %) InterDev 4 6 (0.653 %) Flash 5 5 (0.544 %) ERwin 6 3 (0.326 %) Subversion 7 2 (0.218 %) PowerBuilder 8 1 (0.109 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 180 (19.59 %) Finance 2 107 (11.64 %) Banking 3 66 (7.182 %) Front Office 4 65 (7.073 %) Investment Banking 5 49 (5.332 %) Insurance 6 28 (3.047 %) Marketing 7 18 (1.959 %) Retail 8 16 (1.741 %) Financial Institution 8 16 (1.741 %) Back Office 9 14 (1.523 %) Advertising 10 12 (1.306 %) Health 11 10 (1.088 %) Billing 12 7 (0.762 %) Telecoms 12 7 (0.762 %) Government 13 5 (0.544 %) Manufacturing 14 4 (0.435 %) Law 14 4 (0.435 %) Legal 14 4 (0.435 %) Automotive 14 4 (0.435 %) Pensions 15 3 (0.326 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 44 (4.788 %) NHS 2 19 (2.067 %) N-Tier 3 9 (0.979 %) Data Extraction 3 9 (0.979 %) Derivative 3 9 (0.979 %) Client/Server 4 8 (0.871 %) Data Conversion 5 7 (0.762 %) Fixed Income 5 7 (0.762 %) Equities 6 6 (0.653 %) Replication 7 5 (0.544 %) Multithreading 7 5 (0.544 %) Market Risk 7 5 (0.544 %) Management Information System 7 5 (0.544 %) Credit Derivative 8 4 (0.435 %) Data Integration 8 4 (0.435 %) Computer Science 9 3 (0.326 %) Statistics 9 3 (0.326 %) EPoS 9 3 (0.326 %) W3C 10 2 (0.218 %) Device Driver 10 2 (0.218 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 33 (3.591 %) Windows 2 8 (0.871 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (0.435 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (0.326 %) Windows Server 2008 4 3 (0.326 %) Windows NT 4 3 (0.326 %) UNIX 5 2 (0.218 %) Linux 5 2 (0.218 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (0.109 %) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies 1 62 (6.746 %) Migration 2 51 (5.550 %) Business Intelligence 3 48 (5.223 %) OO 4 30 (3.264 %) Agile Software Development 5 26 (2.829 %) Data Migration 6 24 (2.612 %) Web Development 7 21 (2.285 %) E-Commerce 8 20 (2.176 %) Asset Management 9 19 (2.067 %) TDD 10 17 (1.850 %) UML 11 16 (1.741 %) RAD 11 16 (1.741 %) Logistics 12 15 (1.632 %) CRM 13 14 (1.523 %) Data Modelling 14 13 (1.415 %) Unit Testing 15 12 (1.306 %) SOA 15 12 (1.306 %) Validation 16 10 (1.088 %) Content Management 17 9 (0.979 %) OOD 18 8 (0.871 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 384 (41.78 %) C# 2 368 (40.04 %) SQL 3 198 (21.55 %) Transact-SQL 4 123 (13.38 %) VB.NET 5 88 (9.576 %) VB 6 54 (5.876 %) VB6 7 51 (5.550 %) JavaScript 8 29 (3.156 %) VBA 9 26 (2.829 %) DHTML 10 23 (2.503 %) C++ 11 11 (1.197 %) C 11 11 (1.197 %) Java 12 9 (0.979 %) VBScript 13 6 (0.653 %) PHP 14 5 (0.544 %) PL/SQL 14 5 (0.544 %) Delphi 15 4 (0.435 %) Perl 15 4 (0.435 %) Python 16 1 (0.109 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 13 (1.415 %) Degree 2 11 (1.197 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (0.762 %) MCSD 4 5 (0.544 %) MCP 5 3 (0.326 %) MCDBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (0.435 %) QA 2 3 (0.326 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 3 (0.326 %) Basel II
System Software 1 9 (0.979 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.544 %) MSMQ 3 1 (0.109 %) Intellisync	Systems Management 1 6 (0.653 %) AutoSys 2 2 (0.218 %) MIIS
Vendors 1 87 (9.467 %) Microsoft 2 30 (3.264 %) Oracle 3 25 (2.720 %) ProClarity 4 17 (1.850 %) Business Objects 5 13 (1.415 %) Cognos 6 7 (0.762 %) Sybase 7 6 (0.653 %) Reuters 7 6 (0.653 %) Bloomberg 8 4 (0.435 %) Murex 8 4 (0.435 %) Calypso 9 3 (0.326 %) Teradata 9 3 (0.326 %) Sony 9 3 (0.326 %) Apple 9 3 (0.326 %) Motorola 10 2 (0.218 %) iSOFT 10 2 (0.218 %) Sage 10 2 (0.218 %) Informatica 10 2 (0.218 %) Adobe 10 2 (0.218 %) Zend 10 2 (0.218 %) ARDENTIA